Congress’s interrogation of the C.E.O. of TikTok encompassed both specific critiques of the platform and more ambient complaints about social media in general—including some fumbling questions about how digital technology works in the first place.
has already done. As Chew pointed out, “We do not collect any more data than any other companies out there.”
At the same time, Chew struggled to convince committee members that TikTok data could be protected from Chinese influence. TikTok has offices around the world, but it does not function in China itself, where there is a counterpart app called Douyin. Both are owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company that counts Chinese Communist Party members as board members and counts the Chinese government as a stakeholder.
No question during the hearing betrayed much positive sentiment toward TikTok. Representative Yvette Clarke, a New York Democrat, did note that the platform was a home for “Black creators,” but then went on to say that TikTok structurally failed to provide them “attribution and compensation.
The Biden Administration is reportedly demanding that ByteDance sell TikTok to an American company, a move that the Chinese government said it would block. If such a divestiture were to occur, it would assuage security concerns while preserving the app as a digital forum and maintaining the livelihoods of TikTok creators and small businesses who use the feed for marketing.
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